[Haskell-cafe] Cabal

[Don Stewart]

duncan.coutts:
> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 10:57 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> 
> > As I understand it, that's also a seperate download. (Whereas the cabal 
> > library comes with GHC.)
> > 
> > One day, if I feel hard-core enough, I might try this tool. (Assuming it 
> > works on Windows...) It sounds potentially useful.
> 
> It will of course be bundled with the first release of the Haskell
> Platform. In the mean time you can get a pre-compiled binary here:
> 
> http://haskell.org/~duncan/cabal/cabal.exe
> 
> > (Although most actual packages typically have one, maybe two
> > dependencies that aren't already installed, if that.)
> 
> My favourite example at the moment is the new hackage server which has
> 24 dependencies and installs nicely using cabal install.
> 

I'm a fan of gitit, and its 46 dependencies, that install via
cabal-install. Pretty awesome.

-- Don